The Whispering Muse: A Novel
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.79 (827 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374534764 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Every evening after dinner he entrances his fellow travelers with the tale of how he sailed with the fabled vessel the Argo on the Argonauts' quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece. Among the crew is the mythical hero Caeneus, disguised as the second mate. S. "Sublime A work of coy humor and shape-shifting magic ." The Wall Street JournalSjón's novels have been championed by a veritable pantheon of literary luminaries: Junot Díaz, David Mitchell, A. What unfolds is a slender, brilliant, always entertaining novel that evokes Borges and Calvino as it weaves together tales of myth and antiquity with the modern world in a literary voice so singular as to seem possessed.. Byatt, Hari Kunzru, and Alberto Manguel, who calls The Whispering Muse "an extraordinary, powerful fablea marvel." The Whispering Muse is Sjón's
Delightful, magical, funny, and brilliant B. Case "The Whispering Muse," by Sjón, is a delightful and totally unique gem of a novella that kept me smiling from beginning to end. It constantly entertained by switching between two types of contrasting pleasures: the pleasure of social satire and the joy of enthralling storytelling in the heroic tradition.First, it's a very funny satire about a stuffy, bigoted, socially inept nincompoop of an elderly scholar named Valdimar Haraldsson. It is Haraldsson who narrat. A master on storytelling and its muse K. Sullivan Valdimar Haraldsson, an elderly widowed gentleman, has spent more than twenty years publishing his theories on the superiority of the Nordic race particularly as it derives from their dependence on the sea for their sustenance. His scholarship is unique because, although some may admit the heartiness of the Nordic race and others might extol the virtue of a diet rich in seafood, he is the rare individual to have put the two theories together and to have registered th. A tale of two underdeveloped stories Daniel Gamboa I am a little puzzled as to what the point of this book was.Is this book about Mr. Haraldsson, an eccentric Icelander with elevated ideas about the Nordic civilization? Well, I think that the author could have developed this character more. Mr. Haraldsson was nothing more than a cartoon struggling to become a real character. This character is funny at times with his observations and quirkiness, but, again, he felt cartoonish to me during the entire novella.Is this bo
----Robin A. It's 1949 and a merchant ship embarks upon its maiden voyage. At the captain's dinner table, competing tale-tellers vie for the attention of their fellow travelers. An Best Book of the Month, May 2013: Fish, myth, and pith form the foundation of this quick, quirky tale from celebrated Icelandic author Sjón. Rothman. But his oratorical skills (not to mention his subject of choice) pale in comparison to those of the ship's first mate, who in mysterious first-person detail shares the enthralling exploits of Jason and the Argonauts. The first is our tedious narrator, a retired journal editor who takes great pride in his theories and lectures on the